independant plugin

Michael Medin michael at medin.name
Thu Apr 14 12:41:08 CEST 2011


Hello,

Writing a script in lua which does this would be fairly simple for 
NSClient++.

// Michael Medin


2011-04-13 15:06 Michel Cote skrev:
> Hi list,
> First time poster here but I've read a lot of emails so many thanks 
> for that.
> I don't know how to search for what I'm looking so I'm going to simply 
> ask and hope someone has seen or made something that would suit what I 
> need.
> So here's the setup:
> I currently use Nagios to scan over 700 routers (Cisco 1800 series) on 
> our network.  Basically we have a little over 700 stores connected to 
> the internet and using a VPN to form a network with our servers.  So 
> currently Nagios is pinging those routers to make sure they are up and 
> connected.
> Behind those routeurs I have an office computer and several cash 
> registers.  As a security precaution those computers are not reachable 
> from my linux box and Nagios of course.
> There is a very simple system that allows those computers to send 
> files back to our servers by secure FTP.
> Ok so what I'm looking for is a software that would work in the 
> background on those computers and scan for CPU usage, Memory, hard 
> drives and if possible temperature.  If certain conditions are met 
> (like shortage of disk space) a file would be produced in a specific 
> folder and the our automatic FTP system would grab it and transfer 
> that to our servers... From there it's a simple matter to transfer it 
> to my linux box and make it availlable to Nagios as a passive check.
> Has anyone heard of such a software?  I've looked into NsClient++ but 
> I have no clue if it's able to save the scans to file if it does it 
> would probably be a pretty good tool for what I'm looking for.
> Another question I have is about the passive check function.  I 
> understand how it works but what I'm not sure of is how to make sure 
> the files that would be produced by the remote software will be 
> correctly formated for Nagios to understand it.
> Thanks in advance for any help offered.
> Michel Côté
>
>
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